Nicole was raised as a Baptist, but converted to Islam four or five years ago.
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The state's best-known case occurred in 1981 when an entire village of untouchables converted to Islam.
Mr. Molins described Alexandre as a troubled youth who converted to Islam just before he turned 18.
Padilla, 35, is a U.S. citizen who converted to Islam after serving two terms in U.S. prison.
The affidavit alleges that he converted to Islam secretly after reading an Islamic website while serving in Korea.
Abu Nusaybah had converted to Islam in late 2004 and Adebolajo followed suit about four months later, he said.
Juan Jose Pimentel said his son converted to Islam five years ago, but never appeared to be an extremist.
He converted to Islam when was about 18 years old, the prosecutor said.
Mr at-Thahabi is an American national who converted to Islam in Saudi Arabia.
Jermaine, who converted to Islam and changed his name to Muhammad Abdul-Aziz, appeared on "Celebrity Big Brother" in 2007.
Raised Christian, she converted to Islam three to five years ago and used to worship at a mosque in Flint.
These include another racist black nationalist, Don Warden, who converted to Islam and changed his name to Khalid al-Mansour .
He is a former Anglican who converted to Islam, and now prays regularly at the mosque in Cheadle in Manchester.
Their forefathers may have converted to Islam under Ottoman rule, but behind closed doors they kept their old Catholic practices.
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Lin, who along with his family converted to Islam in 1983, found both spiritual and material succor in the Gulf kingdom.
Seeking peace and ritual he hadn't found in church, he converted to Islam in 1968, and changed his name to Abdullah Ibrahim.
Lindh, who was born in California, converted to Islam as a teenager.
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William Plotnikov, a Russian-born Canadian citizen who had converted to Islam and came to Dagestan in 2010, was a boxer, like Mr. Tsarnaev.
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The unnamed arrested man, a German who has converted to Islam, is suspected to have links to al-Qaeda, according to the German magazine, Stern.
Ms. Manukyan, an Armenian who converted to Islam before marrying Mr. Todashev, says she met her late husband in 2010 through a mutual friend in Boston.
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One of the families benefiting from the foreign trade system was the Asgaroladis, an old Jewish clan of bazaar traders, who converted to Islam several generations ago.
The vast majority, it appears, are of Pakistani descent, but there're also Bangladeshis, North Africans, and at least one who was indigenous English who converted to Islam awhile ago.
Action was taken against the musician, who converted to Islam and changed his name to Yusuf Islam in the 1970s, after US officials realised he was on a security "watch list".
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In an August interview with the Canadian newspaper National Post, Vitaly Plotnikov said his son, who was 23 when he died, had converted to Islam in 2009 and quickly became radicalized.
The emerging portrait of the suspects, both of Nigerian descent but raised in Britain, indicates that they converted to Islam in recent years, said officials and other people familiar with the men.
Brought before the Ottoman ruler with the connivance of hostile rabbis to answer charges of sedition, Sevi converted to Islam rather than face martyrdom, and accepted a sinecure as the Sultan's head gatekeeper.
After a near-death experience in 1977 helped trigger a spiritual awakening, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens (and the man long ago known as Steven Demetre Georgiou) converted to Islam and retired from secular music-making in 1979.
One day the caretaker at the Selden mosque was sitting next to Vinas in the public library and saw that he was staring at his computer, mesmerized by an account of Joseph Cohen, a Jew who converted to Islam.
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